One of the Taliban Cutthroats Released by Obama has Already Rejoined the Jihad

One of the five Taliban fighters traded last year for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is trying to make contact with the Taliban once again, Fox News has learned.

A U.S. official confirmed to Fox News that the former Guantanamo prisoner has been intercepted making telephone calls to the Taliban.
The development comes amid rising concerns over former Guantanamo detainees returning to the battlefield, and over the nature of the Bergdahl-Taliban trade itself last year, which was negotiated with the involvement of the Qatari government.

Despite the apparent outreach by one of the traded prisoners, all five of the so-called “Taliban 5” are still accounted for in Qatar, a senior U.S. defense official told Fox News.

……While the Taliban is not listed on the State Department list of foreign terrorist organizations, it is on the Treasury Department’s list of “specially designated global terrorist,” dating back to a 2002 executive order.

Maybe that’s why Obama can’t bring himself to use the words ‘terrorist’ and Taliban in the same breath. The State Department hasn’t made it official.

Besides, it’s the semantics that count:

(Spokes-tool Josh) Earnest acknowledged Thursday that they “do carry out tactics that are akin to terrorism, they do pursue terror attacks in an effort to try to advance their agenda.” However, he said they are not like Al Qaeda in that they don’t have “aspirations that extend beyond just the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.”